European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse March is 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 army itt offices now Selling airline tickets Belinda army information Tours and travel offices in Cie Many Are id begin telling airline Vicki is for Leisure travel today but officials said travellers May experience during inc change Over from Barbarossa travel Agency. Barbarossa s contract As the on Post i Ravel Agency expired tuesday Ana the firm is opening offices outside army Bales in 31 communities. It had oper ated 47 on Posl i Ravel offices the army itts Are hoi equipped with computerized airline reservation systems and will have to make lick get reservations by phone said it cot. Robert m. Mcdowell Deputy chief of Usa eur Public affairs. There will be a variance in from one itt la Mother Mcdowell mid. In Frankfurt for example a traveler May be Able to yet a ticket in a Day. But in other areas it might take g couple of Days. Some itt offices said they will arrange Tor customers to pick up tickets at the Airport. Individual will pay itt for tickets which itt will obtain from airlines or German travel agencies that have signed marketing agreements with the army. The army has contracts with 16 firms lop Ovide ticket but they Are scattered Here and there Mcdowell said. Usa eur said in february thai until a new contract is signed to replace Barban a official i Ravel Wilt be proc Essed by the Community installation transportation office. Leisure Ravel will be handled by itt officials Here estimate 9 new contract May be effective sometime Between oct. I. 987. And March 31, 1988," usar eur said in a february message White Tome service May be unavailable and irn Mclen May experience some inconveniences during the interim period the message said usar eur officials pledged to provide the Best possible i Ravel service and Maxi mum income from on Post travel con tractors to morale welfare and recreation programs. Barbarossa has tiled a protest wit the general accounting office Over the hew system at itt. Har Tiamu claim Susareu has awarded n contract to provide travel Lerv Itei to itt which u Hen subcontracting to get the tickets. But in its response u the Gao asking that the protest be dismissed the army judge advocate general s office said Barbarossa it protesting an army management decision to have a function per formed internally by a naf1 non appropriated fund instrumentality instead of being contracted out during an interim period until a new competitive procure ment can be . Air Force itts have been Selling air line tickets since Early his year when Sun Tours the on base travel Agency went bankrupt. Re Porter Chrtt Bowdon Conan Bull la Imi report coeds now seeking Virgin men study reports new York a fewer College men Are exaggerating their sexual conquests and More female students want their next Lover to be a Virgin Accord ing to a Survey that compares present attitudes wit those revealed in a study 10 years ago. Srully Bolnick a sociologist who Heads Bolnick associates a polling firm that did the study re leased monday attributed the changes largely to a fear of sexually transmitted disease such As aids. The study begun in january and completed this month found thai 34 percent of the male respondents admitted exaggerating their number of sexual experiences while talking to friends. In 1977,61 percent said they exaggerated. About 11 percent of the women said they exaggerate compared with 9 percent a decade ago the Guys Are interested in projecting the image of or Clear " Laid Blatnick Twenty two percent of the women said the wanted their next Lover to be a Virgin up from 9 percent in 1977. About 10 percent of the men said they d prefer a Virgin the same percentage from a decade men still choose the live dangerously High risk Sot said College men surveyed seemed to convey the attitude this is the last sexually Safe Harbor i la Ever be in " said Blotnick. There a kind of Garden of Eden mentality which is in fact making them a Little wore other findings Twenty seven percent of the men said they downplayed the number of sexual partners they d had when talking to friends compared with 14 per cent in 1977. Fifty five percent of the women said they underestimated up from 52 percent in 1977. Twenty four percent of the women said they marriage prospects for women in percent Likely to marry by i education i 65 according to education Levels Overall likelihood elementary school some High school High school graduate some College College graduate Grad school 77.5% 74.3 63,6 72.0 81.0 89.1 85.9 60.4% 68.4 53,8 55.9 59.7 66.3 67.8 43.7% 60.5 44.4 40,6 38,2 40.9 42.3 29.9% 50.9 32.7 26.9 23.8 22.8 22.9 18.0% 392 21.0 15.3 12.4 10.8 9.3 Chicago Tribune graphic source Chicago Tribune news reports . Census department think about sexually transmitted diseases when they select sexual partners compared to 11 percent in 1977, six percent of the men said disease was a Factor in their selection compared with 4 percent in 1977. The Survey of 1,422 students Ages 18 and 19, was conducted by phone and personal interviews. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage Points. Students polled were from the University of Miami University of Texas Arizona state univer sity Tempe University of Arizona Phoenix University of California at los Angeles University of Michigan Cornell Columbia Harvard Yale George Washington University Ond american University. Phone firm cancels teen s $5,312.44 porn Call Bill Oakland Calif. A the Telephone company has cancelled a js.312.44 Bill a teen Ager ran up calling pornography numbers on his father s phone. But before the matter was cleared up the youth s father look on three jobs to pay the Tab and his phone was disconnected. "1 know i won t do that again said 13-year-old Kevin Jones on monday i value my life he added looking at his father cd Ester in december Kevin called about 20 different 976 toll numbers repeatedly for up to to hours at a Lime. _ he said he got the first number from the radio but did l remember hearing the announcer say the Calls Cost a apiece plus toll charges. His father found out on dec. To when Pacific Bell gave him live Days to pay a $2,867.48 Bill or have his phone disconnected. Jones said he had never seen the Bill because Kevin had hidden in. Jones a hotel chef went to Pacific Bell and arranged to pay the Bill a Pacific Bell service representative gave him three months to pay it although his phone service would be Cut off anyway. Jones paid $300 on the spot $500 a week later and $1,000 on Jan. 25. The service representative however failed to Lell Jones that the first time an unsupervised minor in a household abuses the 976 Telephone system the Parent does t have to pay for any of the 976 Calls. Meanwhile determined to pay what he owed Jones took two pan time jobs working 90 hours a week. Then in late december came a Bill for $2,444.96 covering inc rest of the Calls his son made in late de Cember on feb. 25, Jones sent another too Check to the phone company. But with a mortgage payment due at the same time that Check bounced. Pacific Bell responded last thursday by cutting off phone service at Jones sister s House across the Street. The sister had co signed on her brother Telephone three years ago and the phone company demanded that she cover the bounced Check. I m very sorry to say this Pac Bell spokeswoman Lynn Jiminez said on monday after checking into the matter. But evidently this particular Case Feu through the she said Pac Bell trains its employees on the company s 976 forgiveness policy but someone missed the training session. Cuomo announces Exchange plan new York. Up gov. Mario Cuomo monday announced that the state has established a partnership with Italy to work in a cultural educational and financial program to generate ideas and economic benefits. Today we Are opening the doors to an Exchange of cultures educational values tradition and economic ideas that will promote understanding and respect Between the people of two countries that share a Rich and historical Bond of Friendship Cuomo said. The International partnership pro Gram announced by Cuomo is named due Case Una which Means two houses one tradition the program is expected to expand to include other nations including France Ireland China Taiwan Japan and is Rael he said. One of the firs cultural interchanges that will Laki place is an italian language conference that will discuss better ways to teach italian in new York schools 11 will be held in Rome in april he said. The italian government praised Cuomo s efforts in embarking on the joint project. Italian ambassador Rinaldo Petrignani called it a United economic and human Endeavor that increases Friend ship and
